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Regional Muslim militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?blamed for bombings across the region, including the devastating attack in Bali a year ago?appears to be on a chilling new tack in its fight to establish an Islamic state in Southeast Asia: slaughtering Christians, in the hope of reigniting murderous inter-religious conflict in Sulawesi...
...Officials say the attackers were JI members and that they believe one of the group's senior leaders, Dulmatin, played an important role in planning the killings. So far, Jakarta's swift clampdown has forestalled retaliatory attacks by Christian vigilantes that could restart the cycle of tit-for-tat violence. But according to Sidney Jones, Southeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, there are several hundred JI members and sympathizers in the region where the attacks took place, and the danger of another provocation remains high. Although many JI operatives have been caught in the past 12 months...
Last Wednesday, Indonesian police swooped into a boarding house in Cirebon in West Java province and busted two alleged terrorists, identified only as Tohir and Ismail. Police suspect they were part of a five-man Jemaah Islamiah (JI) cell that planned and executed the bombing of Jakarta's JW Marriott hotel in August, killing 12. The two suspects may also have been plotting more attacks on American-owned businesses, including the branch of an international bank in Bandung, the province's bustling capital. "They had been surveying the bank but had yet to set a date for the attack," says...
...heartening victory in Asia's war on terror. But they were followed by bitter disappointment. Shortly after Tohir and Ismail were nabbed, says National Police chief detective Erwin Mappaseng, two bigger fish got away through a maze of small alleys in Bandung. Police say Dr. Azahari bin Husin, JI's alleged master bombmaker, and Nurdin Mohamad Top, a fellow Malaysian and suspected bomb expert, had been hiding out in a boarding house in Bandung for six weeks. Apparently, the two Malaysians got wind of the earlier arrests-and disappeared. When police searched the Bandung boarding house, they discovered six small...
...Meanwhile, Arroyo and the military must now track down scores of suspected JI terrorists, including Refke's dining chums. Arroyo says the Philippine military already has special teams "pouring into Mindanao for a manhunt that will not relent until all these fugitives are accounted for." The success of that mission will either help free the country of a dangerous scourge?or touch off another turn in the country's endless cycle of violence...